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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan β€”an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Social Enterprise UK .

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The team created an elaborate map showing the transit and smuggling routes from dozens of African countries to the Mediterranean, and possible distribution points for such bracelets in hubs served by groups like Red Cross/Red Crescent. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

The team created an elaborate map showing the transit and smuggling routes from dozens of African countries to the Mediterranean, and possible distribution points for such bracelets in hubs served by groups like Red Cross/Red Crescent. They tested this updated MVP with refugees and made some surprising discoveries. Christos Makridis, a Ph.D

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Export Online Without Frontiers: A Global Map of B2B Marketplaces

The Startup Magazine

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. B2B Platforms in the United States. Instead of Asia, you may want to target the largest market on the planet, i.e. the United States.

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Entrepreneurs, Commit Not These 7 Deadly Sins

YoungUpstarts

How else can you define a sales process or know what to look for when you hire a sales manager or seek distribution partnerships? First from the corporate sector within Battelle – and then regionally, building innovation and startup support systems in Oklahoma, Ohio and advising several regions of the United States and the United Kingdom.

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The 2018 State of Conversion Optimization Report

ConversionXL

Female CROs seem to be younger; they’re equally distributed in the age groups 20–30 and 30–40. While a plurality of survey responses came from the United States (30.6%), we received responses from 68 Countries. This year, the United States wins the crown with a whopping $95,431.

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How and Why Your Startup Should Go Virtual

ReadWriteStart

The concept of virtual work has many names, from telecommuting and teleworking to distributed companies and remote workers. Lead a distributed workforce, consisting of full- and part-time employees, independent contractors or some combination, all working out of their respective homes.